The letter arrived in a mysterious way - it turned up under my pillow. How it managed to get there, I have no idea. It was a typical Monday morning, 6.30am, and still dark outside. Despite its ...

In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line spells a word. The word is the subject of the poem. She really really likes stars. But this is no ordinary poem. This is an acrostic. So there is ...

In February, digging his garden, planting potatoes, he saw the first lapwings return and came indoors to write to me, his knuckles singing as they reddened in the warmth. It’s not romance ...

(Samples follow below.) Such a poem typically has three lines and a total of about 10 to 14 syllables in no fixed arrangement. Rhymes and titles are not necessary and in fact are likely to be ...

Hope you are all having a lovely fall. Please see below some poems that help embrace the season. “The Wild Swans at Coole” by ...

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Regarding those poems, Nicks also admitted to writing one about a Chicago P.D. star. “I also have so many poems that are ready to go,” Stevie Nicks told Rolling Stone. “I wrote a poem about ...

Just under a thousand new collections of verse are published each year, in addition to a myriad of new poems printed in magazines ... the world of ideas and letters seems inescapable.

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

Trafficking in irreverence, the film follows a pair of stepsiblings with sexual tension. By Natalia Winkelman In the finale of Wang Bing’s nonfiction trilogy, garment-factory workers return to ...

A Berks County preschool teacher is teaching her kids about the world around them through letters. Getting a letter in the mail can still be exciting, especially if it's coming from a far away ...

With an unexpected start, the letter opens with a poem by Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar: "Jeewan ka mulya samajhta hu, dhan ko mai dhool samajhta hu! Kiya wahi satkarm tha jo nibhaya ...